Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 19, Number 5, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 February 1877 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER

C. DOJKK, Pafeliiker. JASrEK. IXDIANA' ITEMS OF INTEREST. PeraoHal HHtl Literary. Miss Lucillo Western, the actress, whs 4!5 Ht tho tiuio of Jiur dottth. Col. Olcott oarrios some of the lato Baron du Palm's ashea in a snuffbox, and tho rust of them ara distributed among ammbars of the Thoosophical Socioty. fiaorga Francis Train says his paper U tho lurjrost and umallost jour na ever published, und his motto U Live ideas in this dead ago from the most sane man in this mad world," Donald G. Mitchell mado his reputation years ago in his 41 Kovcrios of a Bachelor" (by Ik Marvel) ; ho has long been leading a quiet farmer's life; and now his first book is being translated into Italian. Tho Obi'uarM is tho cheerful name of a London weekly newspaper. Undertakers, embaliuers, eremationists, grave-diggers, tombstono-carvers, and crape-makers advertise in it, and space is given to wills and obituaries of the departed. George Eliot furnishes one of the notable exceptions to what is churned to be the rule, women engaged in active pursuits are under paid. Her total earnings from literary work during tho eighteen years she has beea writing amount to about SlCijuOO, or an average of about $9,000 per year. Her most profitable work tkus far has been "Middlemarch," which has brought her in the snug sum of $40,000; but iMniel Deronda," her latest, has already netted her, it is said, $30,000. James Gordon Bennett is said to he brusque and overbeuring in hi9 manner, but very generous to all who in anyway serve the Huratd, treatinjr thorn with exceptional generosity. Ho has given three five hundred dollar watches to employees who havo shown marked enterprise, and to one editor, who was out of health, ho gave a check of 1,000 with which to go to Europe. Why, Mr. Bennett," exclaimed the astonished recipient, " I can't spend half of this." " Spend what you ean and keep the rest." .S'elrttee ami Industry. In a recently opened mino near Gainesville, Ga., have been unearthed gold, silver, copper, iron, zinc, titanium, nickel, tin, molybdinum, lead, steatite, kaolin, mica, rock-crystal, umber, asbestos, rubies, diamonds, garnets and corundum. An advantage over ordinary tea, attributed to mate tea of Paraguay, is that its excessive use does not occasion any nervous disorder. A beverage superior to coffee a? usually prepared is said to have been introduce into Australia lately. It is made from tho leaf of the collee-shrub, instead of from the berry. Grapes havo boon raised in such quantities in California that they are a mere drug in the market, and some farmers are palling up their vines in disgust. One man, however, finds it profitable to raise them to fatten swine with. In tho vicinity of one town four farmers have just sown about 1,000 acres each with wheat. Tho harvest is in May or Juno. It is proposed by an American company to introduce fur-seals from Alaska into Lake Superior. The temperature of tho lake is regarded as cold enough, and a petition will be presented to the Canadian Parliament and tho American Congress to protect the animals from slaughter for L'O years. At tho end of that period it is supposed tho animals will bo acclimatized, anil havo accumulated so as to afibrd valuable sport. Nchoot .! Church. Cornell University has 60 women students. Dartmouth has student? from Japan, Hurmah and Hra7.il. Tho cost of conducting a first-class church in Now York City, with an audience of 800 to 1,000, is about $15,000 a year. Tho pows in Mr. Beccher's church sold this year for $48,421.20, or $lfi,258.60 less than last year. II. B, Clafhn obtained first choico for a premium of $525. Tho Harvard Faculty havo agreed to give their voice in favor of tho admission of women to tho full privileged of the University. Their action has to bo approved, of course, by the corporation. t-Of the 60,000 Chinese in San Francisco, about 760 attend the evening mU sum schools. Threo hundred havo joined churches. Seven hundred aroj iiiemocrs 01 Christian societies and aro studying Christian doctrines. Nearly l.OOu regularly attend Sunday-school. Tho Episcopalians of Cincinnati have established a "Uilical Institute and School of the Evangelists," under jvhose auspices a courpo of daily free lectures is to be given, tho subjects including all the points necessary to a thorough theological t training. Tho leading Episcopal clergymen in tho city are the lecturers. ...--At a meeting of the members of tho Jalnut Street Presbyterian Church, at. Louis, Key. Dr. Brooks, pastor, a propos lion to sever their connection with tho Southern General Assembly and join tho General Assembly of Presbyterian Church of tho United Stales was carried by a vote of 197 to 21. A New York journal gives a gener-

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- ternal ovidt'Heee go, that the on as xcaue of Christianity has not gone backward during the laut twelvemonth. The denominHtional memberships in this country liaro materially increased in all directions, which is the result of the persistent and organized revivals all over the country. The Methodist Episcopal Church has increased its gain from 17,000 in 1875 to 93,000. The Northern Presbyterian Church reports a gain of 29,000. The Protestant Episcopal Church has increased the number of it communicants by nearly 24,000, and the Lutherans report a gain of 67,000, partly through revivals and partly through German immigration. The Northern and Southern Methodist Churches have been reunited after an estrangement of .10 years, and other wounds of long standing in other denominations have been healed. This is a good domestic record ; but the missionary labors of American churches in distant lands have borne fruit in gratifying numerical abundance. Even in Turkey, in spite of untoward conditions, the oku so has prospered and the Gospel has been spread. Haps and Mishaps. Mrs. Susan Brown, a young widow living near Cambridge, O., committed suicido by taking a quantity of rat exterminator. Miss Susio Hall, of Cleveland, was so badly burned by the explosion of a coal-oil lamp that she can not recover. At Evansville, Ind., Mary Scrovers, aged 27, committed suicide by saturating a towel with eight ounces of chloroform and holding it over her mouth until she died. She is supposed to have a husband at Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Joseph Burgemeister, a prominent citizen of LaCrosse, Wis., was accidentally shot by C. Grosskopf. The latter, while carelessly handling a revolver, discharged it, the ball striking Mr. Burgemeister in the abdomen, inflicting a wound from which it is feared be can not recover. Two men, named Charles Wenak and Thomas Crawford, left Muscatine, Iowa, tho other evening, to go to Geneva Island, about 10 miles down the river. Both men were drunk. Their horse was blind and the night dark. They traveled on the ice. Nothing was seen or heard of the men until the following afternoon, when their sleigh was traced to a large air-hole in tho ice into which the men had driven. Both men and horse were drowned. Mr. Richardson, of the firm of Newton & Richardson, pork-packers, of Krie, Pa., was found dead in his bed, shot through the heart. He left letters to his wife and partner, showing that a fear of financial embarrassment had induced the deed, though his troubles seem to havo been somewhat imaginary. Richardson was a young man of good habits, and unusually energetic, and had never given any indications of a suicidal purpose. Foreign !Vetcs. Mme, Perron, whe lately died in Paris, has bequeathed the sum of 85,000 francs to the municipality of Marseilles for founding an asylum for unfortunate dogs and horses. When King Theodore of Abyssinia committed suicide, the English officers found and brought away a little boy, tho son and heir of thedeal King. The lad has been educated in England, in fact the Queen has in a manner adopted him. The Prince of Abyssinia is now at Hugby, visits the royal household during his holidays, and is studious but not smart. A widespread association, under tho name of " Federation and Liberty," has been discovered in Moscow, whose aim it is l make Russia a Federal Republic. The Empire is to form five separate Suites, united by a federation. Tho dynasty U to be set aside, the aristocracy abolished, and communal and republican im-iitutions to bo introduced on the most democratic basis. Numer ous arrests havo consequently been mado in Moscow. The Empress1 of Germany is one of tho most simply dressed of women, ex cept on occasions of ceremony. Her bills are said to bo loss in amount than those of the wives of many of tho Ber lin merchants. She not (infrequently is seen driving out in a calico dress, and tho Princess Bismarck, fresh and come ly, though past 62 superintends her larm worfr, sroes about the house with a great uuncii 01 Keys at ner giruio in tne goon out stvie, and ner bwi-rooms aro tilled with knitted quilts and such articles, evidences of her own skill and industry. The town of Ghcel, in tho provinco of Antwerp, has been for six centuries an abode of madmen. There are 11,IMK) inhabitants in the place, and they have charge of 1,!J00 lunatics from abroad, who aro among the families, and aro treated with great consideration. The children from youth aro familiarized with the business, and all tho people know how to manage those committed to their charge. One of the greatest social punishments that can bo inllicted on a family is to declare that it is unfit to receive such boarders. The lunatic are disposed of among the in habitants according to their wealth or stations, the better families refclvinp' the wealthier patients. age, it is said, f iv.n. r.o ,v 7s, 1 1, a i 1 1 it 1 1 , . 1 is divldod into four :1th its overaeur and n .um. nl luAnnit JS- IIU WUI hundred. Ghcel districts, each with its overseer and 1 . . pnjsician. i,arge sums of money aro spent in the place by the patient!?, and families generally are dcsiriousx)f having one or more lunatics on their hands.

COUNTING THIS ELECT0K.iL VOTES.

The Mill Art red VpoR by tke ComH uei wr tHtNetal an HSMae ihh cuaiHHieHdtil fr faHagc. A Bill to provide for and regulate the eountingof vote for Pridont and Vice-Pm-ideal, and the decittioa of queMion arteIbk therooa for the term oommeneing March 4, Aeao Domini lbTT. lie It enacted by the Senate and Houe of Jtepreeautlveii of the (Jailed nutoe of Aueriea ia Congrete awembld, Tnat the Senate and Houm of Kepmeautiv thail meet la the ball of the IIoue of Keprefientativee at the hour of 10 o'clock ante meridian, or the Srst Thunday In February, A. I). 1877, and the President of the Senate shall be the presiding olheer. Two telleni shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the House of Itepre&eataUves, to whom shall b handed, at they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certiicates, and papers purporting to be certlncntos, and the papers ball be opened, presented and acted unoa la nlphaletical order of the Stnte, wglnnlng with letter A, and Mid tollers having then read the frame, In the prenenee and hearing of the two house, iball make a lidt of vote as they shall appear from swid ccrtllicates, and the votes having been ascertained and counted, in the act provided, the result of the name shall be delivered to the President et the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote and the names ot the pertoas, if any, elected, which announcement (.hall be deemed a fumcteat declaration otthe persona elected President and Vice-President of the United Slates, and, together with a list of State, be entered on the journals of the two IIoum. Upon such reading of any uch eertiicate or paper, when there shall be only one return frura a State, the President of the Senate sliall call for objection?, if any; every ob jection shall be made In writing, asd shall slate, clearly ana eonciseiy, nnu witnout argument, the grouiul thereof, and shall be argued by at least one Senator and one member of the House of Representatives be fore tbe same shall be received, w nen all abjections so made to any vote or paper froraasitote than bare been reeeiveu ana read, the Senate shall thereupon withdraw, and such objections shall be eubmiUed to tbe Senate for its decision, and the Speaker of the House of Itepre&entativos shall, ia like manner, submit sues objections to tbe House of Kepres.entatlves for Itsaiscus-ion: and no Electoral vote or votes from any State from which but one return has been received shall be objected to except by the affirmative vote of the two Houses. When tbe two Houses have voted, they shall im mediately again meet, ami tne pretaing officer shall thee announce the decision of the question submitted. sec. Tbatif wore than one return or paper, purporting to be returns from a State, shall nave been received by tbe Pres ident of tne Senate, purporting to be eertlticatex of Electoral votes given at the last preceding election for President and Vkel'rettiuent in such state, unless iney snail be duplicates of the same returns, ail such returns and papers shall be opened by him, In the presence of the two Houses, when met as aforesaid, and read by tellers, and all such returns and papers shall thereupon be submitted to tbe judgment ana tiectoion. as to which Is the true and lawful Electoral vote of such State, of a Comml-Moa constituted as follows, namely: During the session of each House, on the Tuesday next preceding the Brt Thursday In February, 1877, eacn House mall, by a viva voce vote, appoint five of it members, who, with live Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to be ascertained as hereinafter provided, shall constitute the Commisiofi for the decision of all questions upon or In respect to such doubtful returns named in this section, on the Tuesday next preceding the tirst Thursday in February, A. L. 1877, or as seon thereafter as may be. The Associate Justice ot the Supreme Court of the United States now assigned to the First, Third, Eighth and JS'inth Circuits shall select, in such manner as the majority of them shall deem St, another of the Associate Justkes of Mid Court, which five persons shall be members of Mid Commission, and the person longest in oommUeion of the said Justiees shall be President of said Commission. The members of said Cemtnisieu shall respectively iake and subscribe to the following oath: I, , do solemnly swear or antra, h the case may be, that I will impartially examine and consider all miestiou submitted to the Commission of hie a I am a member, and a true judgment give thereon, agreeably to the Constitution and the Iaw. So help me God. Which oath shall be fled with the Secretary of the Senate. When the CommhiAn shall have bten thus organised, it shall not be in (he power of either House to dissolve the same or to withdraw any one of its members, out If any such Senator or member shall die or become phyclcally unable to perform the duties required by this act, the fact of such death or physical inability shall be by said Comraiscion, before it shall proceed further, communicated to the Senate or House ot Representatives, as the cse may be, which body shall immediately and without delwte proceed by a tire rocc vet to nil the place so vacated, and the person go appointed shall take and subscribe to the oath Heretofore presented and become a member of said Commission; and in like manner, incase any of said Justice of tbe Supreme Court shall die or Itecome physically incapable of performing the duties required by this act, the other of said Justice, member:' of said Commission, shall immediately appoint another Justice of said Court a member of said Commission, and in Mich appointments regard shall be had to the imartiality and freedom from Ida sought by the original appointments to saiit Commission, who shall thereupon immediately take and subscribe to the oath hereinbefore subscribed and become member of said Comtuition to fill the vacancy so occasioned. All the certificate awl paper purporting to be certificate of Electoral voles of each State shall tte opened in the alphabetical order of State, as provided In section one of tl.li) L. I. . I . nm . L kui "itf cknu oncB ihcac: nnmi w my imh otic such certificate or paper, a the certilcate and papers from such Sute skill be to opened, excepting duplicate of tae same return, they shnll be read by tellers, and thereupon the President of the Senate shall cull fnr nbWtlnn. if ihv. Wrr oltlrtliui mxi :vint fesmii Every objection shall be made in writing, and shall Mate clearly and concisely and without argument the ground thereof, and shall be signed by at lead one Senator ami one member ef the House of Representatives before the se shall be received. When all such objecHows so made to any certinctes vot or tmper, rrom a Mate snail have iseen recciv civand ed and read, all such certificate., votes papers so ebjected to, ant! all papers cuompanvln the same, together with such I objections, shall be forthwith submitted to isald Commission, which shall proceed to a. . ... . i consider the same with the same powers. If , tuy, mow possessed for that purpose ly the two Houses, actiRRsepiraUly or together, 1 and by a majority of votes decide whether lav null vrlit vtU frAiu st&t ara tW bv a HUtorltv at vatjn iiHrle whether any and what vote from such State are tbe votes provided for by the Constitution of the United State, and hew many and what persons were duly appointed Electors In such State, and may therein take late view

1 mm 4Weew.dfitin an' ether vn, ' M mar. Mi shall by the CeeMHutfeu mm! now

. I existing law, be wamw t mm! pertinent m MKtt CMMMKfMnMl, ntn MetMMI MM be made ia writing, Mating britny the ground thereof, and signed by the Members of Mid Commistlon agreeing therein, whereupon the two Houe shall agnia sect, awl such decision shall be read, and entered ia the journal of each House. The collating ef the vote shall proceed ia conformity therewith, unit, upon objection made taereto ia writing by at lt ve Senators and live member of the lieu of Kepreeenutivee, the two Houses snail separately concur in ordering otherwise, in wbtehcae fcura aaaiirrat mir fchalt rt.xam . Vo votes or papers from any other dtate beil eactet upon unui ooweuowt prenomiy nude to the votes or papers front any State frlMUl nave been anat'y dHpoeea or. Se?. 3. That white the two Hooeee hail be ia meeting, at provided in tbi aet, no debate shall be allowed and no question shall be put by the presiding ontcer, except to either fioue, or a motion to withdraw, and he shall have power to preserve order. Sec. 4. That when the two IIoue separate to decide upon an objection that naj have been made to the counting of any Electoral vote or vote front any State, or upon objection to a report of Mid Commisfrion, or other queMien arising under thi act, each Senator and Kepre tentative saay fpeekto fcuch objection or question ten minute, and not oftenertban one. But after tuch debate shall have ltcd two hourf, itfcbail be the duty of each of the Houses t put the main queetion without further debate. Sec. S. That at ueh joint meeting of the Ilouee seats shall be provided a follows: For the President of the Senate, the Speaker's chair; for the Speaker.immediatelrupon hi left; the Senator, in the body of tne hall upon the right of the Presiding oletr; for the KepreeenuUres in the body of the hall not provided for the Senators; for the Teller, Secretaries of the Senate and Clerks of the Route of Representative, at the Clerk's deek; for other omeerrf of the two IIouef ,in front of the Cterk's tle-kand upon each ide of the Speaker's platform. Such joint meeting shall not be dissolved until the count of Electoral votos fcball be completed and the reeitlt declared, and no reeete shall be token uataH a question ball have arien ia regard to the counting of any such vote, or otherwise, under thU aet, in which eae it shall be competent for either IIoue. anting feparatelr in the manner hereinbefore provided, to direct a TLTzXrSZZZ "ZZtZZLi r.C 1 day, Sunday excepted, at tne Jwur or 1 r o'clock ia the forenoon, and while any quethm b being coasder-d by skl Commission, either Ueue may proceed with its legHiatTe or other ousine. Sec. 6. That nothing in thte act shall be held to Impair or atfeel any right now existing under the Constitution and laws, to question, by proceedings in the judicial courts of the United States, the right entitle of the person who shall be declared elected, or who shall claim to be President or Vice-President oi tbe United States, if anv such rieht exists. sec. 7. IhU said Commission skill make lis own ruiee. keep a record of iM proceedings, and shall have power to emptor euch persons a may be necessary for the tran-ac-tlon of ite bu-iee4 and the execution ef iu power. THE COMPROMISE BILL. Whnt Prominent Ilrmaeratic Jaanutla !iar About 1 1. THE CHANCES. St. KepnblicM.) It is impoMible to view the proposed plan for deu raining the Presidential diepute ontside the possible result it may yield; and in feet, this U the way nine out ef ten persons actually do view it. The question, Is it fair? curat to come first; but it doe not: it Is secondary to the question. Whom shall it elect? Will it make Tilden President, or Hayes? Will it make Heodrkks Vice-President, or Wheeler? As to the plan itself, it mutt be admitted that it Is as fair and just aa the conditions of the dispute admit of; it is as fair and just a scheme as under th circmstauces could pebbly be framed; and it is most creditable to the patriotism and sense ef justice of the seven Democrats and six Kejaibllcaas of the joint committee that they have been able to agree upon it The judicial apex in which tne Commission culminates indicate that the ultimate result will turn on contitutknal and legal points for it i sufficiently plain already teat tbe House and SenUe constituent? of the commission will disagree on all the material points of the depute, and, therefore, the live Judges of the Supreme Court will have to decide all of them. And right here i revealed the intrinsic strength of the Democratic caus a strength that thi plan of settlement does not impart, but which it he poesed from the beginning. There are four State ia dispute, with possibly one electoral vote In a kfth Minnesota to be deputed also. These will present at iea-t four eyimiut tioeal question, and perhaps more. -W thin qutrtio, be they four or mere, will have to be decided In favor of Hayes to elect him; oalv one will need to be deckled in favor of Tihien to elect him. Tilden will go before the tribunal with 1S4 undieputtd votes needing only one more to elect; Hayes with ICS seeding 30 more to elect. And here we see tbe almost ridiculous weakness of the Republican cause. There are 3 Electoral votes in dispute 7 from South Carolina. 4 from Florida, 5 from Louisiana, and 1 from Oregon. The Commission, sworn on their conscience to well and truly trv the camp. mut make a judicial award of all tbce 30 vote to Hayes to elect him; if he loses one of them, he is beaten. Tildes, on the ether hand, with 154 votes conceded, require but one of the contested votes to make him President. If, therefore, the Commission decide either one ef tbe legal points at iue m his favor, no matter whether it be the South Carolina question, or the Florida question, or the Louisiana question, er the Oregon questionhe becomes President, and Hendricks Vice-President. .NOT A COMraOMISK. St. Lonta Times. The Democratic position be been that in tbe case et contkting return it rest- with ( vma,tt,f 7 t mn-tniinrc i nrvu rmn irr .T7ia.ed, and if the two Hous are unable to 1 agree, the vat of the State i tt. Thfe , position hi not been abandoned. The two . Houses are to exercise their tKwer ? re 1 ferring all conflicting return to committees , of their w. IkkIUs, which are to act upon I them precisely as CosgreM mistht act To I prevent the possibility of disagreement. and J to impart a judicial character to the decision, the committees arete he reinforced by ffc I Justices of the Supreme Court, just a a number of "experts" were added to the Silver Commission. This tripartite com mittee will have power to decide between coelicUng returns, as appears to be the ef a Stole, and la t $ becomes aide te e vrbtrti Unumi ill trial mm to count mat wmcn true and lawful vote thk rtBct Ceaurrcse i Wimwc alita ta tiwhi tka bmiw 1 whkh Demeerats claim for it anteu mere j enectuMly then H could be exercised by the ' eencurrent action ef the twe houses a It Is 1 not to be expected that Ceegree eeuld l eeed ia deing mere, m.lheese ef a ffe re-

1 tun, Um to throw tet Dm wte ( tk i Stale.

' As Senator K J mead well snys, Um right Mf tMetSTe WHO Mafl ( rresUWW MM IMt t reet wha Cengrese exclusively until a law ahall be ped to thai clfcct. TteN Uw bee been prepared for the purpos of carrying j fata execution the power eoaferred by the J Constitution, and it is so fair and ut that it wigHt well, with teste madineatious, he 5 enacted into a continuing law. Without 'such a Uw even tiring aside any awu nip tion of power by Mr. Kerry there muet in evitably ensue a dead -lock between the twe Houeee, and in that event it wuid at hmet be a matter of serious qutin whether the election would neeeesarily be thrown into J the Ueuee ot JtrepreeenUtivee . rrXIUMKXTAL ORJBCTIOKS TO TMK BILL. ClaetaaaU Jnanirer. If the House of Representative eons en tg to tbe passage of this bill, it will be guilty of a grave fault of a political blunder. The report eeufefrtee that tbe Constitution domes the President of tbe Senate with no power, the two bouse with aJf power, to count the vote-i. If the two bouse have net the power, they can not delegate it to SupremeJudgee. Ifthe power f devolved upon Coaereat by the Constitution, it can not delegate tbe power toacommhsfrioaouteide of itself. The Congrese could as properly go a-ihing and select a commi4oeto enaet laws for the people of the United State. Tbe objections to the bill are fun mental. It would dragthe Supreme Court of the United -States into a political brawl, by hauling a majority of its members into this wrangle. Whether they should decide with or against their respective parties, their motives would be questioned, and resptet for tbe Court would be weakened. It concedes the right, which is - alo the duty, of the two Houeea to count the vote, and ia the same breath proposes to iiurrender a part of that rhcht, which might, in effect, be all of it. Mr. Tilden baa been elected, or be has not been. Tbe Constitution has appointed a board of arbitration, a eommfcBieu, to determine tbi fact. That eommiion i the Congrose, the proposed bill concede. The Congrew is eompet eat to decide the question without foreign aid not only, but it ha no power to refer the question to an outside iMard. The bill k a pernicious one in itself, and would be daagereus as a precedent. Tbe result ef the arbitration would enrage, and not satisfy, either party. The bill would be tbe humiliating confession that, after a Preeident ban been eleeted, the Constitutional all the facte ia 7v . ...r.l . 'Z their pososion, with their mths recorded, are unable to, or dare not, declare the result of the election without lawless assistance. AX UKNECESS.tKVCOMMB5tON UadlanapoUe SentljHrl.l For ever eighty years Cagres has exereied tbe power of counting the Electoral vote and determining who had been elected President and Vice-President, and we thick it is yet equal to the task. It hsbi to us te be unnecessary to create a commission to be composed In part of persons net members of either branch of the National Legislature to determine whom tbe people elected last November, and while we are hopeful that an amicable solution of one ef the met difficult problem that were ever submitted to a deliberative body is near at hand, there are some features in the plan proposed by the joint committee well calculated to arouse apprehension. It is to be hoped that the committees' deliberations, the fruits ot which are to tte seen in the bill submitted to Congre,will result in the eomptete defeat of the fraudulent purposes ef eoaepirators and vindicate tbe majesty of the expressed will of the people and the dignity of the ballot-box. We are quite free to admit that Morton's hostility to the plan jucreed upon by tbe committee is primn fi de evidence of i merits, but we prefer to aaalyae the provisions of the bill somewhat more cvefully before giving them our unqualified indorsement, thouch we are quite willing to admit that under all ei reamstances the labors of tbe committee mere than realize the expectations ef the meet sanguine. I0 NOT TRUST THKMSELVR3. New York WerW J But the main Question remain : Why are Jud re from the Supreme Court Invited ia to asshit as referee : i;ieariy iseeause tne two houses do not agree to trust themselves, they being the tribunal upon which the Censtttuttoa as imposed tne mtruen or aecision about the Electoral votes. .Their fear or belief appears to be that the two bodies will divide and decide each question ac cording to the partisan associations and ob ligations of each member the House thus deciding such disputed point for Tilden and tne senate lor tiayes. An umpirage m therefore to be called in from the Supreme Court bench. But has not the Constitution declared what shall happen when the two Houses so disagree that no candidate has a eteritvef the electors appoint. 7 Is net the House to elect a President and the Sen ate a ice-President? A PEACEFUL SKTTLKMKNT DKMANDKD. LonkvOle ETcMngNews.j The fact that the plan is supported by such Democratic statesmen as Senators Thurman, Bayard and Kaaoom affords strong grounds for tbe approval of It by the Democratic masses. Tbe exigencies of the time demand the adoption of some paeineatory measure thtt shall honorably solve the perileu issue presented. All tae interests of the republic call for a peaceful settle ment. War may become a neecs-lty, but it is an extremity that every puriet should strive to avert; and while maintaining unfalteringly the rights andliberths ef the people, tne statesmen can not disregard tne imperative duty to exhaust every practicable means et escape from a calamity, the re currence ef whkh would likely subvert not only the Presidency but the r public iUelf. IN5TAT,tNEOCS fKEIXNG OK RELIEF. I Bet toe Post. The final opening ef the doer te a peaceful settlement ef the Presidential depute so needlessly raised by Chandler, Cameron asd Morton, with tbe aid of their chosen lieutenant, brings an instantaneous ft-eliag of relief to the whole country. These provisions are remarkably fair and jut to both parties. It not so, the plan reported by the committee can not be expected to be adopted by Congress, nor would K he acceptable to tbe country. The phm is not in accordance with the views ot extremists en either side. But It by its adoption substantial justice can be done, a detdleek et the two Houses be prevented, and the public mind be put at rest and eae, the country win te relieved from an unexpected and difficult dilemma, and provision can be snide hereafter for sttch permanent legislation on the subject as thowbdom ami cool judgment of a future Consrr my establish, it must by this time bo obwM that scarcely any ether form of harwonlaation could 1 adopted. . . . In calling in the auxiliary and con ronton Judgment of the Supreme Court, wh never is to be said against drawing that tribunal into tnearesmef polities, Uwre h far higher msen and wisdom then In letting things drift Into the Inevitable gulf whkh the wreckers ef free government bed prepared for their wn seilea ende.